Tatler Restaurant Guide 2014 - Where to eat, where to drink

Dinner

If you haven’t yet experienced Heston Blumenthal’s conceits – a chicken liver and foie gras parfait ‘meat fruit’ that looks like an orange (Mandarin Oriental, geddit?) or savoury porridge of frogs’ legs and smoked beetroot – then do not pass Go but head directly to Knightsbridge. The room, designed by New York-based Adam Tihany and overlooking Hyde Park, is lovely, while the kitchen, with its open rotisserie and pulley system in plain view, is mesmerising. Service glides.